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| IEN Meeting the
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Indigenous
Peoples are confronting many challenges. Changes in the
environment, globalization and rapid economic development threaten our
communities on both a local and global level. The survival of Indigenous
culture, language and community continues to be affected by a modern
industrialized world that lacks respect for the sacredness of Mother
Earth. As "caretakers" of Mother Earth, it is our historic
repsonsibility to protect the natural environment, to generate awarness of
traditional ecological knowledge and promote models for sustainable
community development.
Established in 1990, IEN was formed by community-based
Indigenous Peoles, including youth and elders, to address environmental
and economic justice issues in North America. IEN is an Indigenous-based,
non-profit, and non-governmental organization working on environmental
protection, environmental health, conservation of natural resources,
protection of sacred areas and promoting sustainable development within
Indigenous territories.
Our
tools inlcude public education, conducting workshops, local
organizing partnerships, network building and policy development with the
following program and project focus.
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Dear Friends,
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As the new-year approaches, we all look
forward to new life and new beginnings. Here at the Indigenous
Environmental Network, we also are looking forward to new and exciting
developments! For the past 17 years the Indigenous Environmental Network
has built a successful network of Native communities and organizations
building strength and taking action in challenging polluting industries
and government to make the right decision when it comes to public health,
safety, environmental justice and the protection of treaty land.
Through our program work and campaigns IEN strives to empower indigenous communities to speak
and do for themselves, to build community
leadership, capacity and strength to protect and maintain the health of
neighborhoods, communities and nations.
Sincerely,
Tom
Goldtooth
Executive Director
Indigenous Environmental
Network
Picture: Tom Goldtooth speaking at the 2007
Social Justice Forum in Atlanta, GA
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We are the Voice!
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Our work is intergenerational with particular
emphasis upon building and fostering relationships between elders and
youth. Indigenous peoples have a strong tradition and history of caring
for the environment, yet, are largely ignored within the environmental and
other movements. IEN works to bring the essential voice of native
peoples to
the forefront.
Picture: "Playing in the mud" 2006 IEN
workshop on straw bale building.
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Our Network
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We have won many battles from halting large
toxic waste facilities and stopping a proposed high-level radioactive
waste dump on a small Native reservation in Utah. By applying a human
rights based approach, our work has impacted toxics chemical policy
resulting in a global treaty to begin eliminating persistent organic
pollutants such as dioxin.
With our close relationship to Mother Earth,
Native people are the "Miners Canary" especially in those areas of North
America where our Native families are still practicing their indigenous
life-ways through hunting, fishing and gathering of traditional foods. It
is within these remote areas that our Native women and children are
experiencing disproportionate health exposure from consumption of
traditional foods often containing industrial chemicals released from
sources 1,000's of miles from Native lands.
Now, with the expansion of mining, oil and
energy development in U.S. and Canada, Native Nations are under tremendous
economic pressure to open up their lands and negotiate their natural
resources to energy corporations, mining companies and the timber
industry. Native Nations hold valuable natural resources that are wanted
for everything from energy development, to gold mining, to water resources
to the dumping of nuclear waste.
Through our program work and
campaigns IEN strives to empower
indigenous communities to speak and do for themselves, to build community leadership, capacity and
strength to protect and maintain the health of neighborhoods, communities
and nations. We do this by engaging the entire community, recognizing existing
strengths and resources and building upon them to create positive and lasting systemic change.
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and information from the following projects:
- Tribal Campus Climate
Challenge
- Native Energy Campaign
- Youth Leadership
Development
- REDOIL Alaska Network
- Mining
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- Annual Protecting Mother Earth Gathering
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